Amendments to Affordable Housing Bill 2023 aim to save employers from paying Housing levy

National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwah and Molo MP Kimani Kuria are keen on passing the Affordable Housing Bill 2023.

[Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Employers will get a big relief if the National Assembly approves the proposal by a committee to scrap the requirement that they match the 1.5 per cent housing levy payable by their workers.

Initially, the National Treasury had proposed the levy be matched by employers but the National Assembly Committee on Finance and National Planning that was overseeing the public participation that concluded weeks ago, conceded to pleas that the levy on employers would render many jobless.